Saturday, February 19, 2011

It hasn't made the national news, but there have been multipleprotests here recently over the police killing of a native americanwood carver. the DA has decided not to prosecute the murderous cop andlast night the police pepper sprayed the protesters. (i'm feeling awee bit guilty for not having been there as i have protest medictraining, including how to treat for pepper spray and tear gas. if youwant to do something productive, learn to be a protest medic). therehave also been multiple incidents of officers kicking people who aresubdued on the ground while hurling racial slurs. there was acommunity meeting recently for people to air the grievences againstthe SPD where the police were not invited because citizens rightlyfear police retaliation for speaking out publicly. Minorities (andanyone who doesn't pass as middle class or better) in the city don'tlook on the police as defenders of law and order but as potentialterrorizers and possible murderers, because they are.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Friday, February 18, 2011

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see it. The financial'crisis' (which is really just a deepening of the poverty andstruggles of the bottom 80%) is making possible the fearmongeringrequired to put us peasants into a feudal system, but now we bow andscrape to corporate masters rather than noble lords. The 'nobody couldhave predicted' crews are lying sacks of shit. It was predicted andexploited. defunding schools, roads, police, fire, social welfare,social security, from cities and towns to the federal level is onpurpose. it is not the only solution to difficult times. It is thedesired outcome of kleptocrats, banksters, left and right politiciansand the buffer class they reward for keeping us rabble in line.Austerity is not 'necessary sacrifice' but the end goal.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Thursday, February 17, 2011

i'm about to first world whinge. yes, i know that in the mountains ofcrap, from housing to food to blah blah blah, internet access is arelatively small problem.but fuckity fuck fuck. i just spent several hours getting the damn runaround in a clearwire store. virgin fucking mobile still hasn'trefunded me for the service i paid for and couldn't use. i would loveto just call qwest and get good old dsl, but in our temporary digs i'mnot allowed to and i'd just have to pay for 2 rounds of priceyinstallation charges.sure, i could go to an internet cafe. but i am in constant pain,everyday. getting there would be painful, then sitting properly inhard chairs would do me in. (i told you all, first world whingey, iwhine like a baby)So i'm tired and hurty and took 5 busses and walked multiple blockswith nothing to show for it and now i am going to curl up with myhotwater bottle and pout because i am stuck reading the intertubes onmy phone for the forseeable future.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Kid just got his first dose of the HPV vaccine, paid for by thegovernment. of course one of the side effects of vaccination for hpvis uncontrolled sexytimes in previously virginal children, so i am atthe drugstore buying him condoms and liquor*.* if by condoms and liquor i mean acne cream and shower scrubbies.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

i got the kid a graphic adaptation of A People's History of AMericanEmpire and opened it up to Zinn writing about reading Dickens andgetting pissed off as a kid. and then i was thinking about why it isthat A Christmas Carol is the only Dickens novel read in school.Dickens was the most famous (though not my favorite) of the victoriansocial justice writers. he was all about class war, evil rich men andstruggling poor people. A Christmas Carol makes it look like all youneed is for rich men to individually grow a conscience. his othernovels generally include some legal system mechanics to bring aboutchange, not individual contrition.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

There have been these stories about how wonderfully non-abusiveegyptian protestors have been, especially towards the womenprotestors. it sounds familiar, a story i've heard before. our boysaren't abusive, they're goodprogressives/democrats/revolutionaries/christians/whatever. I readthese stories with one eyebrow cocked. and then today the story oflaura logan's rape and beating was released by cbs. i don't know whoattacked her, jubilant protestors, the military, the police? but itwas decidedly not non-violent. the murders of protestors at the handsof police are not non-violent. The beatings and detainment of pressand protestors are not non-violent. it is irresponsible to call this anon-violent uprising, even though the protestors were non-violent. wehave to remember that. we have to know the risks of violence thatnon-violence includes, especially if we are female. that doesn't makenon-violence any less important but it does diminish the risk and thesacrifice when we don't acknowledge them.

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

okay peeps, get your math hats on. kid and i disagree with the book'sanswer to this problem.you have a lightpost 6 meters high and a dude 2 meters tall isstanding 10 meters from the post. how long is his shadow?kid and i figured that due to the slope his shadow should be 5 meterslong. book says 10. what do you all think? and why?

-- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.Willem de Kooning

Red Queen Says

Modesty is for people with nothing to brag about. You may catch more flies with honey but why the hell do you want to catch flies. Life isn’t fair, so you have to work your ass off to make it fairer. The worst insult is not to be called a ‘bitch” or a “cunt” but to be called a “coward” or “nice”. Fortunately, no one has ever had a reason to call me a coward and we won’t talk about what happened to the only person that ever called me a “nice girl”.

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